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and Lodhs. They divided into three branches, two of which take their names from places Thuktaya and Serai, and the third, strangely enough, either from its original head, or, as the common story goes, from the murder by two of its chiefs of the eldest son of the eldest or Serai branch. It is Murkaha' or Murderous House.' But the elder branch kept up called its superiority, and completely subjugated the other two divisions of the '

'

family in the end.

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" Within the present century, Sawul Singh, the chief of the Serai Turuf, was high in favor with the Lucknow Court, and received the office of chukladar; on which he made the whole pergunnah of Futtehpore his own estate. At his death, Saadut Ali gave the pergunnah to Jussa Singh, his son, who for a long time was one of the most notorious men in the country. His known daring and his large following induced all, the Government officials to treat him with great respect; and though he behaved most independently, and frequently sheltered outlaws or defaulters of whom the Government was in search, he was never a-ttacked by the king's forces, and never quarrelled with the local officials. His end was an evil one. He seized the English fugitives who were escaping from Futtehgurh by boat in the rebellion of 1857, and gave them up to the tender mercies of the Nana, who massacred them all on the Cawnpore parade. At length, in an attack on Oonao, he was wounded in the hand by a shot from the garrison the wound mortified, and on the fourth day he died. One of his sons was hanged, and the other is still in hiding and his cousin and partner, Bhopal Singh, died in March 1861 of cholera, after having lost his wife, his mother, and his child, within one month, by the same Their own personal estates were confiscated and given to terrible disease. strangers, but those which Sawul had annexed from the other branches of. the family were restored to the owners."



FATEHPUR CB-ATmASI—PargoMa Unao.

—This

town

FATEnrvR—Tahsil Safipur—Dis-

west of Safipur and twenty-five miles north-west of Unao, one mile south of the road from Unao to Bangarmau and north of the river Kalyani. trict

lies

six miles

,

alleged to have been founded

by Raja Karandeo

of the Janw^r The- Thatheras are said to have held the place originally, then a Sayyad colony, then the Janwars, each transfer being caused by a great battle. It

is

tribe,

who came from Abhaipur Patan near

Jaipur.

The head of the Janwar clan resided here up till the inutiny. See account of the pargana. There are bazars on Tuesdays and Fridays, and a fair on the Dasahra, attended by about a thousand people. The population

is

564 are Brahmans. to Mahadeo.

2,803, of whom 273 are Musalmans, 132 are Chhattris, There are no masonry houses, but five temples, three

—

FATEHPUR Pargana—Tahsil Fxtespttr—District Baea Banki.—The pargana

lies north of De-w^a, and Sitapur district. Its area is 154 13,186 are culturable waste, and Rs. 1,32,192, being at the rate Re. 1-10-11 per culturable acre

south of Mahmudabad the latter in the square miles 65,358 acres are cultivated, 18,695 are barren. The land revenue is of Rs. 2-0-4 per acre of cultivation, and



Tha

T^nnnlation is 93.793.

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